Mathematical Tablets from Tell Harmal

• Main Author: Gonçalves, Carlos (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2015.
• Series: Sources and Studies in the History of Mathematics and Physical Sciences,
• Subjects: Mathematics.; History.; Social sciences.; History of Mathematical Sciences.; Mathematics in the Humanities and Social Sciences.

This work offers a re-edition of twelve mathematical tablets from the site of Tell Harmal, in the borders of present-day Baghdad. In ancient times, Tell Harmal was Šaduppûm, a city representative of the region of the Diyala river and of the kingdom of Ešnunna, to which it belonged for a time. These...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• 1. The Site of Tell Harmal and the Archaeological Record
• 2. A Few Remarks About Old Babylonian Mathematics
• 3. Conventions
• 4. Mathematical Tablets
• 5. On Old Babylonian Mathematics and its History
• 6. General Vocabulary
• References.